Base and leg support



Jan. 24, 1928.'

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1,656,966 UNITED STATES. PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN R. ANDERSON, or CLEVELAND, OHIO, .essrcnon ro. 'rnn 'VANDORN IRON wonks U COMPANY, or cnnvEnANn, OHIO, a conronarIoN or onto.

BASE AIBID LEG SUPPORT.

Application filed. October 19, 1925. Serial No. 63,373.

This invention relates tocabinets and particularly to leg structures for use in supporting the same. I

It is customary where filing cabinets are arranged in a stack or gang and where the demands require them to be raised from the floor for sanitary and other reasons, to provide them with legs, but where unit cabinets are arranged to be set side by side in a gang, it is diflicult to provide a leg structure which will properly support the cabinets and at the same time be elastic and flexible enough to meet the requirements, in expanding the number of units. Leg structures have been made heretoforewith interlocking means be tween them and a connected rail, but in some of these devices the connection between the leg structures and the connecting rail are inefficient and weak and do not possess the sufficient rigidity to meet the required demands. The present invention therefore is aimed at this feature and consists of suitable connecting rails or members interlocked with leg structures by interlocking means which gives strength and rigidity to the frame work formed by the connecting rails and leg structures and remains locked so long as the cabinets are in place.

One embodiment of the invention is shown in the following description, drawings and claims.

Referring to the drawings, Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the leg assembly with suitable cabinets, broken away, supported thereby; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the leg assembly; Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view on the line 3-8, Fig. 1; and Fig. 1 is a sectional view taken upon the line 44 of Fig. 3.

In the drawings, 1 represents the cabinets which are supported by my improved leg assembly. The leg assembly comprises a leg structure shown in side elevation and in section in Fig. 3 and comprises a pair of leg channels 2 opening inwardly. Each of these channels is provided with a bracingstrip 3 extending downwardly and bent inwardly to form a foot plate 4 which is braced by a transverse U-shaped clip having a cross member 5 and end members 6 spot welded or otherwise secured to the sides of the channel shaped leg. The upper end of the bracing strip 3 is bent over in the channel and is se cured to a cross leg channel member 7 by an inwardly bent strap 8 spot welded to the bottom of the channel 7. The sides of the channels 7 pass between the sides of the leg channel and are welded thereto. There is one of these legs at. each end of the cross leg channel member 7. Eaclrside flange of each leg is provided with a downwardly extending strap 9 punched from the material of the leg and extending outwardly sulli cient to receive a tongue 10 securedto a cross rail generally indicated at 11. .Each tongue 10 is rounded at its lower back cor ner, as at 12, and is provided wit-han up wardly extending lug 13 adapted to engage back of the edge oft-he strap 9 tohold the tongue in place, as clearly shown iarig.

Each cross rail 11 is made up by bending the material back upon itself to form a double thickness at 14 along its lower edge and a double thickness at 15 along its upper edge, the inwardly and downwardly bent material being again bent at right angles to the vertical face of the cross rail to provide a horizontal flange 16, adapted to extend under the cabinet and by its engagement with the underside thereof prevent removal of the cross rail when the cabinet is in place upon the leg assembly. The cross rail ll may be made single for one cabinet or may be made to include two cabinets, as shown, but in any case the end of the rail is adapted to come opposite to or flush with the side of the cabinet and midway between the sides of each leg requiring a finishing panel 17 for the end of each end cabinet to complete the proper spacing width of the end leg structures. These end panels rest upon their leg structlires and are provided with suitable skirt portions 18 adapted to nest around the leg portion and its loop 9 and provide a finish for the end of the cabinet. l

When the leg assemblies are made up with cross rails equivalent to the width of two cabinets in which case these cross rails will be interlocked with three leg structures, as shown. When it is desired to add new cabinets to the gang it is only necessary to remove the end panel, connect either leg structures to the leg structures present and supply the new cabinets using the end panel which has been previously ren'loved upon the last new cabinet added.

Having described my invention, I claim: 1. A supporting leg assembly for cabinets and the like, comprising a plurality of leg structures each having a front and rearleg,

connecting cross rails for said leg structures, interlocking devices between said cross rail and leg structures, comprising a locking tongue for the side of each leg structure, a loop extending from the side of each leg adapted to receive said tongue, said locking tongue being rounded at its lower real."

corner, and a lockin lug carried by the rear end of each tongue or engagement with the back of the loop.

2. Ina supporting leg assembly for cab 3. In a" supporting leg assembly for cabinets and the like as in claim 2 wherein the leg structures carry sockets opening out at the front and the rear and the end ralls carry laterally extending locking tongues for insertion in the sockets.

4. supporting leg assembly for cahinets and the like as in claim 2 wherein the leg structures carry front and the rear lateral sockets open at the front and the rear and the end rails carry laterally extending tongues for insertion in said sockets.

5. In a supporting leg assembly for cabinets and the like as in claim 2 wherein the leg structures carry front and rear lateral sockets open at the front and the rear and the end rails carry laterally extending tongues for insertion in said sockets and proj ectlons carried by said tongues for engagement back of the sockets and requiring tilting of the rail for engagement and disengagement.

In testimony whereof I hereby afiix my signature.

JOHN R. ANDERSON. 

